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by revelio 3y ago
You're talking about wealth, not money. Wealth indeed cannot be created out of thin air and is based on converting inputs into higher value outputs. Money in contrast can be created at will, and is, all the time.
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by revelio 3y ago
Printing money is by definition out of nowhere. If governments sell bonds to domestic buyers then indeed that doesn't create money, but in practice most bonds are bought by the central bank using printed money.
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by revelio 3y ago
I didn't intend for it to be read as either good or bad. Actually I think it's a good thing. Government employees should not see themselves as independent of politicians.
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by revelio 3y ago
Inflation during the gold standard came from: 1. Debasement of the currency (reducing the gold content of coins) 2. Gold mining 3. Stealing gold from abroad That's why the Spanish Empire suffered hyperinflation after Cortez, because so
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by revelio 3y ago
Apple has lots of competitors and doesn't even have dominant market share. Google is hard to compete with due to network effects, because they don't often miss tricks, and because they've invested so heavily in core R&D f
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by revelio 3y ago
The sharp rise in inflation predates any kind of energy crisis. Inflation kicked off in 2021. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/core-inflation-ra... Energy didn't become a major issue until Ukraine was in
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by revelio 3y ago
That claim is very specific to how you define market. Most markets have never had more than 3-5 major competitors in them because beyond that it gets too hard for customers to differentiate between them, too hard to understand all the avail
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by revelio 3y ago
In practice central bankers are unelected politicians. Their mandates are set by politicians, they aren't actually bankers in the normal sense of the term, and what they do is attempt to plan the economy in service of politically set g
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by revelio 3y ago
He labelled the cause as government policy, which clearly includes pandemic measures. Sweden didn't lock down but they did print a ton of money. Compare money supply growth for UK vs Sweden. It's the same and occurred at the same
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by revelio 3y ago
Feel free to write your own analysis of the original question!
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by revelio 3y ago
Yes, but the goal of curious conversation requires a diversity of views, otherwise there's nothing to be curious about. In turn that would greatly benefit from a more classical approach to rules of debate in which speakers aren't
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by revelio 3y ago
It doesn't ascribe words to anyone. For the rest, yes, that's what political analysis is. Do you find all political commentary illegitimate or just the stuff you don't like? "Putting words in someone's mouth" i
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by revelio 3y ago
No words are ascribed to anyone, so you're off base there. It's just an attempt to analyze the behavior of a group of people by seeking underlying themes and rationales, like millions of other such explanations out there.
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by revelio 3y ago
Getting moderated typically results in a post being made invisible to most site readers, which voids the effort put into writing it. Of course it imposes cost on the person being moderated, that's the purpose of moderation and bans in
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by revelio 3y ago
> What incentive do people on the left have to deny the obvious conclusion that it came from the lab? Huh, isn't that kind of obvious? A big part of left wing ideology is progressivism, which is an exaltation of progress. The exac
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by revelio 3y ago
That's the explanation they came up with for why they were lying, but these people are self-admitted liars so why would you believe their lies any further? If you are in charge of government and worried about mask availability, the rig
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by revelio 3y ago
That's a fairly culturally specific interpretation of common sense. Where I live it would for sure also include e-bikes and scooters, quite possibly regular bikes too (this is assuming "park" here means something on the groun
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by revelio 3y ago
If they're ignorant then Hotez should be able to destroy them on air, with ease, shouldn't he? The actual fear here is not that these guys are ignorant idiots but rather that they will in fact make many correct points that aren&#x
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by revelio 3y ago
Hotez doesn't do that. He has a long track record of saying things, on video, that contradict prior things he's said, also on video. The reason he won't debate anyone is that he'd immediately be hung by his own words. He
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by revelio 3y ago
Authors. There are two. One is a psychologist from Berkeley. The other is another AI ethics grifter (article affiliation claims she's in the school of computer science at Dublin but her website says she studies human behavior and AI et
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by revelio 3y ago
They chose Claude because if you're going for a friendly human sounding personality, a first name (which is how people address each other) sounds much better. How many people refer to each other by their last names in normal casual con
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by revelio 3y ago
Please prove that it's human actions that cause coastal erosion, because I'm pretty sure coastlines have always been moving and shifting in response to erosion. That's how beaches are made, isn't it? Also, even if that w
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by revelio 3y ago
No CoC is as clear as law is generally expected to be.
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by revelio 3y ago
They could, but their justification had to be "I don't like you". The CoC process is designed to enable exclusion via opaque committees who justify their decisions by reference to vague and subjective criteria. It makes the p
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by revelio 3y ago
Yes, but that's not what I said. Sea levels do rise globally at a slow rate, but it can also be offset by the land itself rising and falling (isostatic rebound), by minor changes to instruments (because the actual changes we're ta
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by revelio 3y ago
Your last link is about Tebunginako. That island was already identified in 1991 as suffering from ordinary coastal erosion and sandbank migration: https://spccfpstore1.blob.core.windows.net/digitallibrary-do... Although th
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by revelio 3y ago
Neither claim is correct, both are intended to denigrate him (an electrical engineer is someone who does electrics for buildings or grids, not someone who works on CPU design and you know it). And they're both about the author of one o
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by revelio 3y ago
Miami Beach tide gauge readings haven't changed since the year that study was published. https://psmsl.org/data/obtaining/rlr.monthly.plots/1858.png Also, do you really find that study credible? "ti
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by revelio 3y ago
The supposed flooding of low lying Pacific islands have been one of the primary emotional stories told by environmentalists, governments and the UN for decades. The poor innocent islanders having their homes destroyed by massive sea level r
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by revelio 3y ago
You packed two bits of ad hominem misinformation into one sentence there, bravo! He once used a pseudonym like so many of us on this forum still do, but has gone by Tony Heller for many years now. And he wasn't an electrical engineer,

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